Hotel / Zugdidi

In a hotel, with locals. Most of them are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) the refugees in their own country. In 1998, during the fighting in Abkhazia, a significant number of people fled to Zugdidi, Georgia, seeking shelter and assistance. Most of these refugees took shelter in schools and other public buildings, while some were housed in collective centers that were opened by the authorities in and around the town. In 1999, Zugdidi was still full of IDP's, with more than forty thousand living there.